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| 'After reading
your book, it feels as if I have been there!' If
there is a single comment which summarizes the reaction to reading one of Ian
Wilson's series of hardcover steam books, that is it.
Written in a moment-by-moment narrative style, like a gripping
novel. Hundreds of photographs, maps and time tables printed on high-gloss archival paper.
Ian's books are the definitive story of locomotives, trains,
operations, history and occupations on the Canadian National Railways (CNR) in Ontario
during the steam-to-diesel transition era of the 1950s. |
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| What the reviewers are saying: It would be difficult to put together a book that better depicts a particular
railroad than this one - it entertains and informs with grace and style. Take a bow, Mr.
Wilson; you deserve it.
JIM BOYD
The best explanation of how such a place worked that I have ever
read.
WILLIAM SCHAUMBURG
I will continue to buy every book Ian Wilson puts out.
JOHN SWANSON
Ian has set standards that any volume should try and
meet.
PAUL BOWN
These books are a series of chapters telling and
recreating separate stories about railway life... this is a semi-transcript of "oral
history" that may have been lost except for this effort. I felt as if I was there in
space and time.
TOM KELCEC
If you are a fan of CNR operations in the days of steam
you will want to acquire this work.
PAUL BOWN
An entertaining and informative read, and a wonderful
photographic essay about 1950s railroading.
TREVOR MARSHALL |
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